The option allows you to remove TTY and compile without errors. This
saves space on systems that won't support TTY interfaces anyway.
bloat-o-meter output is below.
The bulk of this patch consists of Kconfig changes adding "depends on
TTY" to various serial devices and similar drivers that require the TTY
layer. Ideally, these dependencies would occur on a common intermediate
symbol such as SERIO, but most drivers "select SERIO" rather than
"depends on SERIO", and "select" does not respect dependencies.
bloat-o-meter output comparing our previous minimal to new minimal by
removing TTY. The list is filtered to not show removed entries with awk
'$3 != "-"' as the list was very long.
add/remove: 0/226 grow/shrink: 2/14 up/down: 6/-35356 (-35350)
function old new delta
chr_dev_init 166 170 +4
allow_signal 80 82 +2
static.__warned 143 142 -1
disallow_signal 63 62 -1
__set_special_pids 95 94 -1
unregister_console 126 121 -5
start_kernel 546 541 -5
register_console 593 588 -5
copy_from_user 45 40 -5
sys_setsid 128 120 -8
sys_vhangup 32 19 -13
do_exit 1543 1526 -17
bitmap_zero 60 40 -20
arch_local_irq_save 137 117 -20
release_task 674 652 -22
static.spin_unlock_irqrestore 308 260 -48
Signed-off-by: Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
udev fully replaces this special file system that only contains CAPI
NCCI TTY device nodes. User space (pppdcapiplugin) works without
noticing the difference.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Despite all its bugs, the middleware support of our CAPI stack was
already in use for many, many moons. And after going through its code,
fixing all issues I found, I feel it deserves to officially become a
non-experimental feature.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
With dynamic TTY nodes and the help of udev, we no longer need this
special filesystem. Schedule it for removal in one year from now.
As a last duty to this feature, move its help to right option so that
users can read the rationale.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix various typos in kernel docs and Kconfigs, 2.6.21-rc4.
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
The CAPI trace debug functions were using a fixed size buffer, which can be
overflowed if wrong formatted CAPI messages were sent to the kernel capi
layer. The code was also not protected against multiple callers. This fix
bug 8028.
Additionally the patch make the CAPI trace functions optional.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
